Let's Talk About the Bills, 2023 Divisional Round Edition

[Bearcat]

Discuss.

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

This will be an extremely difficult game to win.

We have not seen anything like this in the Mahomes era.

Extremely difficult? That would imply we have little to no chance of winning.

This honestly seems like a toss up considering how both teams have played this year and the injuries the Bills are dealing with.

Someone help me out, is this part of Clay's routine? Am I missing something here?

[Chieftain]

Another thing to point out, Diggs is not the same player as in seasons past. He has regressed a lot and it shows not only in stats but his overall play on the field. The impactful presence just isn't there.

[philfree]

It's hard to win on the road in the playoffs but the who's more motivated talk is dumb. They're both off the charts motivated....geez...

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Bl00dyBizkitz

Extremely difficult? That would imply we have little to no chance of winning.

It's going to be ****ing hard, dude.

Offensively we've played pretty bad teams during our resurgence. We're about to face a much much tougher challenge.

We can't have any Week 16 Chiefs in this game.

Doesn't mean we can't win. But the Chiefs absolutely must play their A+ game.

[UChieffyBugger]

The Bills injury report is gonna be headline news this week for sure. But the media will ignore it and Colin Cowherd says "the two day advantage doesn't matter" apparently.

[Eleazar]

The Jills limped through that whole Steelers game. They should have blown that team out. The Steelers had a statue at QB and refused to do much of anything throughout. A better opponent and the Jills may well have gone out today, forget next week.

[duncan_idaho]

I spent the evening re-watching the Buffalo game.

Every break in that game went the Bills’ way.

Chiefs’ first drive, they’re moving the ball well, Epenesa makes a nice play batting the ball and it pops right back to him for the INT.

Bills’ 1st scoring drive, Edwards drops a pass that hits him in both hands and would have given the Chiefs the ball at the Buffalo 40.

The Chiefs offense moved the ball pretty well against Buffalo despite not having much pop in the run game and not getting much extra yardage. Definitely can see their inability to run it outside with Pacheco’s speed.

Rice had a fumble on a promising drive.

The Bills pulled off the crazy 3rd and 9 where Allen flips it to Murray as he’s going out of bounds, Murray drops - Murray was ruled to catch it on the field, instead of it incomplete, and the fumble slips through the hands of a few Chiefs out of bounds. Replay lets the call on the field stand. Bills ended up punting on this one, but a fumble recovery gives the ball to KC in much better field position.

And then there’s the Toney thing (and Mahomes clearly not being over it).

Having Pacheco and Donovan Smith back for this one will be big.

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

It's going to be ****ing hard, dude.

Offensively we've played pretty bad teams during our resurgence. We're about to face a much much tougher challenge.

We can't have any Week 16 Chiefs in this game.

Doesn't mean we can't win. But the Chiefs absolutely must play their A+ game.

I've been on the Miami is fraud for a long time, so beating them doesn't mean KC is a great team.

But the D did bring it for four quarters.

Playoff Mahomes did show up.

Given the conditions, KC did fine with turnovers/drops.

Miami's D was depleted, but Rice is obviously feeling it. It was a great momentum game.

The team is relatively healthy.

A great D, Mahomes, Andy, Kelce, Rice, Pacheco and no deal breaking injuries is more than enough against a depleted Bills team.

FGs instead of TDs was the biggest concern. Various explanations for that.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

Do you just do this as a coping mechanism, I don't think you are a pussy?

No we need to be terrified of the QB that has beaten the likes of Phillip Rivers, Mac Jones, Skylar Thompson and now Mason Rudolph in the playoffs.

[Hammock Parties]

No matter what happens, it's just fun to think about where we might be after this game.

This could be a Top 5 moment in the Mahomes Legend.

Really fun to think about.

And to prepare for.

[TinyEvel]

Originally Posted by ForeverIowan

Better Coach, Better QB, Better Defense...

...Better football, better pizza, Papa John's

[TinyEvel]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

This will be an extremely difficult game to win.

We have not seen anything like this in the Mahomes era.

Every once in a wile you get all contrarian seemingly to whip up attention and controversy.

Imma start calling u Jason WHITElock

[Hammock Parties]

It is not controversial to say this is maybe the biggest challenge we've ever faced in the postseason.

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

It is not controversial to say this is maybe the biggest challenge we've ever faced in the postseason.

Tampa Super Bowl was probably more difficult. Tampa was very healthy while KC’s offensive line was not healthy. Tampa had a very loaded roster, probably more loaded than Buffalo.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

It is not controversial to say this is maybe the biggest challenge we've ever faced in the postseason.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say playing the Bengals with Mahomes 0-3 against them on a high ankle sprain down basically all receivers but MVS might've been the bigger challenge.

Would you rather be that Chiefs team or this one?